[G4] Gigabit Ethernet & memory

nagable at comcast.net nagable at comcast.net
Mon Sep 3 10:27:33 PDT 2007


It is possible to upgrade the "hidden" memory module to 512MB, but it's not a project for the faint of heart.

Nate
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Daniel Tellier <cdt at globaldsl.net>
> No, I haven't.  I'll look into it, though, and consider the 
> possibilities before I go back to Panther.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> On Monday, September 3, 2007, at 12:37  AM, Techpriest wrote:
> 
> > Have you "tuned" OSX 4 to run better on the G3s?  I found turning off 
> > many of the bells and whistles helped.
> >
> > Here is a good article with some tips to get all versions of OSX to 
> > run better on slower machines.
> >
> > http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020221092653868
> >
> > On Sep 2, 2007, at 9:48 PM, Daniel Tellier wrote:
> >>
> >> I also have two G3 iBooks, a 700 Mhz, with an 80Gb HD, and an 800 
> >> Mhz, with a 30 Gb HD, both with 640Mb RAM.  I upgraded the 700Mhz to 
> >> OSX 10.4 Tiger and its performance slowed considerably.  If I 
> >> remember correctly, Tiger is a significantly larger system than 
> >> Jaguar or Panther and seems to slow the older, slower systems down.  
> >> (More memory might alleviate this problem, but that is not an option 
> >> with these iBooks - they are both maxed on RAM).  I'm planning to 
> >> move it back to Panther because of this.   That is, of course, unless 
> >> some to the guys with more experience than me tell me I'm wrong and 
> >> what I did to slow down my iBook besides upgrading to Tiger.
> >
> >
> >
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